Leptodictyum Riparium

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Leptodictyum riparium. In aquaristics the name leptodictyum riparium or amblystegium riparium is commonly used for the upright growing stringy moss. Leptodictyum riparium in the world of aquarists this plant is known as stringy mos. Obtusum grout grout.

Although its natural habitat is said to be in australia central europe and south america it also has a wide range in the rest of the world. The species is sometimes confused with another wetland species drepanocladus aduncus which differs by its axillary hairs with 1 3 hyaline distal cells. As the specific epithet implies leptodictyum riparium occurs along rivers often in flooded areas where the plants are stranded on tree bases in hardwood forests.

Leptodictyum riparium hedwig warnstorf krypt fl. It has a dark green color with irregularly branched shoots which can grow up to 30 cm upwards in a stringy manners. I tried leptodictyum riparium stringy moss loved the look of it but just wouldn t last beyond a couple months at best.

The only places it is not found are the pacific islands and australia. Riparium native to germany have a very different appearance even when kept under the same conditions. Under intensive light it ramifies better.

Atlas of living australia has more than 300 records of leptodictyum riparium stringy moss official occurences in australia mostly at the southern and eastern parts of australia. The specimen obtained by aquarzon was originally a hitchhiker that was received when another moss was purchased. Leptodictyum riparium commonly known as kneiff s feathermoss streamside leptodictyum moss or knapwort is a species of moss of cosmopolitan distribution.

Leptodictyum riparium is also known as kneiff s feathermoss streamside leptodictyum moss or knapwort which is an aquatic plant species belonging to the amblystegiaceae family. Hypnum riparium hedwig 1801. James flowers.